New PN: Hidden Potential
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The Science of Achieving Greater Thingsby Adam Grant |
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."HELEN KELLER |
FROM THE BOOK“Everyone has hidden potential. This book is about how we unlock it.
There’s a widely held belief that greatness is mostly born—not made. That leads us to celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But you don’t have to be a wunderkind to accomplish great things. My goal is to illuminate how we can all rise to achieve greater things. This book is not about ambition. It’s about aspiration. As the philosopher Agnes Callard highlights, ambition is the outcome you want to attain. Aspiration is the person you hope to become. The question is not how much money you earn, how many fancy titles you land, or how many awards you accumulate. Those status symbols are poor proxies for progress. What counts is not how hard you work but how much you grow. And growth requires much more than a mindset—it begins with a set of skills we normally overlook. When we admire great thinkers, doers, and leaders, we often focus narrowly on their performance. That leads us to elevate the people who have accomplished the most and overlook the ones who have achieved the most with the least. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but how far you’ve climbed to get there.” |
Brian's Notes
As you know if you are at all interested in personal growth, Adam Grant is one of THE most respected and popular thinkers/authors/writers in the world.
As per the back flap of the book: He is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he has been the top-rated professor for years.
His books have sold millions of copies and his TED talks have been viewed tens of millions of times. He’s also the host of the podcast Re:Thinking. This is the second Note I’ve created on one of his books. The first was on Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
The theme of this book can best be summed up by the VERY last words of the book: “Redefine success. The most meaningful form of performance is progress. The ultimate mark of potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but the distance you’ve traveled—and helped others travel.”
The book is fantastic. Get a copy here. Of course, it’s PACKED with Big Ideas on “The Science of Achieving Greater Things” and I’m excited to share a few of my favorites while you apply that wisdom to your life TODAY so... Let’s get to work!
P.S. Here are some Notes on a couple of my other favorite Organizational Psychologists: Tal Ben-Shahar’s Happier, The Pursuit of Perfect, and Choose the Life You Want plus Ben Hardy’s The Science of Scaling and Be Your Future Self Now.
As per the back flap of the book: He is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he has been the top-rated professor for years.
His books have sold millions of copies and his TED talks have been viewed tens of millions of times. He’s also the host of the podcast Re:Thinking. This is the second Note I’ve created on one of his books. The first was on Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
The theme of this book can best be summed up by the VERY last words of the book: “Redefine success. The most meaningful form of performance is progress. The ultimate mark of potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but the distance you’ve traveled—and helped others travel.”
The book is fantastic. Get a copy here. Of course, it’s PACKED with Big Ideas on “The Science of Achieving Greater Things” and I’m excited to share a few of my favorites while you apply that wisdom to your life TODAY so... Let’s get to work!
P.S. Here are some Notes on a couple of my other favorite Organizational Psychologists: Tal Ben-Shahar’s Happier, The Pursuit of Perfect, and Choose the Life You Want plus Ben Hardy’s The Science of Scaling and Be Your Future Self Now.
Big Ideas
01: SKILLS OF CHARACTER
02: THE IMPERFECTIONISTS
03: DELIBERATE PLAY
04: BACKING UP
05: REDEFINE SUCCESS
“The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but how far you’ve climbed to get there."ADAM GRANT |
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